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by Carl Ballard — Friday, 1/24/25, 8:14 am

A long time ago, back when buses ran in the Transit Tunnel, I was going from Pioneer Square to Convention Place and just got on the first bus, that happened to be at the end of the route. I got on and the only other people were the driver and a couple sitting in the very back. The man was playing a ukulele to the woman. Fantastic.

This moment, back when buses ran in the tunnel, back when there was a Convention Place station, is the last time I was charmed by hearing someone else’s music on public transportation.

But now? Every other ride someone is playing music. It’s very annoying. The other day, it wasn’t just a phone without headphones, but an actual speaker. Fucking hell dude. And sometimes I have to hear your podcast, with commercials? I’m advertised to enough on public transportation without an annoying ad for mattresses or whatever.

Sorry now for the sudden tone shift, I’m trying out a footer. Hey, today is a good day to contact your member of Congress or one of legislators.

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  1. 1

    Hannah Krieg spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 8:53 am

    I need a job.

  2. 2

    Ashley Nerbovig spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 8:53 am

    So do I!!!

  3. 3

    Rich Smith spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 8:54 am

    Oh man, I need one too!

    Hey Alexsis, are you hiring?

  4. 4

    [NOT] David Goldstein spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 9:04 am

    [Deleted — see the commenting policy]

  5. 5

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 9:09 am

    My God. What on earth has happened to the Los Angeles Times?

    Officials were warned of failing water system before Palisades fire. Fixes never happened

    Records show L.A. County missed dozens of opportunities for water infrastructure improvements that experts say likely would have helped firefighters during the Palisades fire.

    Some of the long-delayed projects were specifically aimed at improving “fire flow” and ensuring enough water during emergencies.

    A county official said that the water system “performed as designed” during the Palisades fire, and that additional water would have saved “relatively few homes.”

    Decades of Democrat governance haven’t done much for LA. It has done a lot for the millionaire and billionaire Democrat donors, of course. So there’s that.

    Karen Bass is a walking, talking disaster. No wonder she made Biden’s Veep short list.

  6. 6

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 9:16 am

    Barack Obama and Jennifer Aniston are fucking?

  7. 7

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 9:20 am

    Had Trump won in 2020, libbies, there might very well be an exhausted America and a Democrat in the White House today and for the next eight years.

    Politico, my former employer and I knew at the time, didn’t do itself any favors,” said Caputo. “I was covering Biden at the time, and I remember coming to my editor and saying, ‘Hey, we need to write about the Hunter Biden laptop.’ And I was told this came from on high at Politico: Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop. And the only thing Politico wound up writing was that piece that called it disinformation, which charitably could be called misinformation, at the least.”

    I hope you still think four years of The Biden Crime Family was worth it. ’cause I sure do.

  8. 8

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 9:25 am

    Seattle PD DEI’s new term for the illegal alien currently burglarizing Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s shithole is “unauthorized inhabitant”.

    Julia Friedland
    @JuliaFriedland

    Well, this is a new one.

    Newsweek’s new term for illegal alien is “unauthorized citizen.”

    How can that be?

    Guess they missed Governor DeSantis shut down similarly absurd terminology yesterday.
    8:01 AM · Jan 24, 2025

  9. 9

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 9:28 am

    In yet another example of the sweeping effects of the DJT47 mandate, Norah O’Donnell has been cashiered by CBS News.

    Meanwhile, Jim Acosta is considering whether to resign to pursue new opportunities, or accept the demotion to the midnight-2 a.m. time slot on CNN’s rapidly imploding network.

  10. 10

    Steppenwolf spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 9:46 am

    America, where are you now?

    Don’t you care about your sons and daughters?

    Don’t you know, we need you now!

    We can’t fight alone against the Monster!

  11. 11

    America the Beautiful spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 9:53 am

    The Afghanistan withdrawal was Trump’s doing and disaster.

    He didn’t care then and doesn’t care now.

    He is a maniac monster

  12. 12

    Incompetent White Cis Male spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 9:55 am

    I am a non-DEI incompetent hire.

  13. 13

    America the Beautiful spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 9:57 am

    Let it rain.

  14. 14

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 10:06 am

    @ 11

    The Afghanistan withdrawal was Trump’s doing.

    The mechanics were all Biden, including his famous claim that 300,000 Afghani troops would hold the Taliban at bay.

    After which he scrambled to add another 1,000 US troops to help out with the withdrawal. Which was far from enough:

    Initially 1,000 troops were in place to aid with the withdrawal, and administration officials quickly judged that total to be insufficient. An additional contingent of Marines arrived in Kabul as part of a 3,000-troop force intended to secure an airlift of U.S. Embassy personnel and Afghan allies as Taliban insurgents approached the outskirts of the capital. The additional 1,000 troops approved Saturday appeared to bring the total to 5,000.
    …
    In a sign of fears that the Taliban could soon capture Kabul, U.S. Embassy personnel were urgently destroying sensitive documents, according to two U.S. military officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the situation.

    As the situation in Afghanistan rapidly worsened, Biden, who was spending the weekend at Camp David, and Vice President Kamala Harris held a secure video conference on Saturday morning with national security officials before Biden announced the additional troops.
    …
    But the decision in recent days to dispatch 4,000 fresh troops suggested that American forces and their allies were at risk. There was no discussion of rejoining the war, but the number of troops needed for security will depend on decisions about keeping the embassy open and the extent of a Taliban threat to the capital in coming days.

    Having the Aug. 31 deadline pass with thousands of U.S. troops in the country could be problematic for Biden, who said he had no regrets about stopping the U.S. war by that date.

    https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-joe-biden-middle-east-evacuations-kabul-8ec855b3f943dafe80d3d3ca6b0953f2

    If it was Trump’s policy but Biden said he had no regrets about the timeline, then it’s on Biden to do the job competently.

    I’ll be Bi-Done’s got regrets now. When he’s lucid, that is.

    Biden’s approval ratings tanked immediately after the clusterfuck and the US military personnel deaths that his disastrous plan caused, and never recovered. America saw that he was unprepared and incompetent.

    America was right.

  15. 15

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 10:08 am

    @ 12

    I am a non-DEI incompetent hire.

    So was Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit.

    So is G-clown.

    Your point?

  16. 16

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 10:25 am

    So orange pants shitter will release all the JFK files.

    Except for one..

    The one about Canuck Rafael Khruzz’s daddy.

    Nothing pants shitter luvs more than a suckup it’s pwned.

  17. 17

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 10:33 am

    @ 16

    There’s no JFK Day.

    But there is a MLK Day. Or at least for the time being.

    Looking forward to the wide dissemination of the reality that MLK encouraged the rape of a woman while he was present in the room.

    Looking forward, as well, to Welfare Queen YLB brushing it off ’cause bitch deserved it.

  18. 18

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 10:36 am

    DJT47’s press secretary:

    Karoline Leavitt
    @PressSec

    Deportation flights have begun.

    President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: if you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences.

    3:57 AM · Jan 24, 2025

    That didn’t take long. The previous administration could have done it, too.

  19. 19

    Rent-a-room spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 10:48 am

    17

    She was probably Hindu, so YLB thinks she had it coming..

  20. 20

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 10:51 am

    @ 17, 19

    She was probably better looking than Welfare Queen YLB and therefore had it coming.

    No one treats a woman more viciously than another woman. Welfare Queen YLB has proven that on HA for close to two decades.

  21. 21

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 10:54 am

    Jake Tapper has cost CNN a lot of money.

    CNN said it would cut about 200 roles focused on its TV operations.

    The news organization also plans to hire about the same number in digital-focused positions.

    CEO Mark Thompson said last year that he wanted to “future-proof” CNN.

  22. 22

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 10:55 am

    MLK encouraged the rape of a woman while he was present in the room.

    Sounds like a one of your frat parties..

    Except your frat didn’t allow black pledges until it had to for appearance’s sake.

    Now your fav vip room on the other hand.

  23. 23

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 10:57 am

    No one treats a woman more viciously

    Than a repuke like Ted Bundy or the repuke gangs at kreepy dumbfuck’s frat or vip room.

    I bet Rodney Alcala was a big time bonzo fan.

  24. 24

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 11:00 am

    She was probably Hindu

    kreepy asshat maxiwipe wants to host a necktie party for Kshama Sawant.

    Puts it in a junior high mental daze. Its preferred state of “mind”.

    That kind of hate trance is how maxiwipe communes with Dori Monson in its after “life”.

  25. 25

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 11:05 am

    Ever try sucking off a liberal billionaire?

    Maxiwipe and dumbfuck sittin’ in a tree..

    droppin’ to their knees..

    At elmo’s “roman salute” lmao..

  26. 26

    YLB spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 11:07 am

    RE Kshama: “ya, I voted for her”

    The end.

  27. 27

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 11:08 am

    What on earth has happened to the Los Angeles Times?

    It dropped to its knees for mushroom donnie like Bezos’ WaPo.

    Owners come and go. The Chandler legacy never leaves the building.

  28. 28

    Meet at the bike racks after class spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 11:09 am

    25

    You literally sound like a 14 year old.

  29. 29

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 11:09 am

    TV personality acting like an asshole on social media gets what’s coming to her.

    CBS weather reporter fired after Elon Musk ‘Nazi salute’ comments

    Stupidity should be painful. Relatedly, Welfare Queen YLB has never had a pain-free moment in her adult life.

  30. 30

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 11:12 am

    RE Kshama: “ya, I voted for her”

    maxiwipe can’t vote for anyone.. On the run from the IRS, it renounced its citizenship..

    Notice it doesn’t whine any more about its taxes.

    Stay long enough in Baja and you won’t be able to do shit, much less vote or pay taxes

  31. 31

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 11:14 am

    You literally sound like a 14 year old.

    That’s your natural state..As it was with Dori. Relives your glory daze in Junior High.

  32. 32

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 11:18 am

    Stupidity should be painful.

    Wow dumbfuck reveals here its addiction to oxy and other pain killers.

    I’d normally recommend it to seek help but it said that would be bad for the kids.

    All parents want what’s best for their kids

  33. 33

    Quadrophenia spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 11:24 am

    30

    Hahahaha….strange, my passport still says US citizen, and I would bet we paid more in federal taxes than you grossed for the entire year.

    Poor little girl, still playing in the minor leagues

  34. 34

    mushroom donnie spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 11:26 am

    You can come home now liddle maxiwipe. All will be forgiven.

    Show up at Mar a Lago on the weekend. Don’t forget your kneepads.

  35. 35

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 11:32 am

    my passport still says US citizen

    musta cost some big coin to have that faked.. yawwwn.

    It’ll go to its grave babblin’ about its “taxes”.

    But perhaps it’s discovered the “fountain of youth”. No wonder it babbles like a junior high puke. Dang.. what? 16 fucking years now here at ha?

    Looks like we’ll be stuck with liddle maxiwipe till the server goes cold. Dumbfuck otoh will expire eventually.

  36. 36

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 11:38 am

    Canuck Rafael Khruzz

    I should say kankun kanuck rafael khruzz whose little cocktail party in kankun with the likes of liddle asshat maxiwipe was so rudely interrupted by the collapse of the electrical grid in TexASS.

  37. 37

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 11:51 am

    Welfare Queen YLB @ 36, which was more consequential?

    The presence of a US Senator representing Texas in Cancun, fewer than 800 miles away, during a low-temperature event affecting the Lone Star state?

    Or the presence of the Los Angeles mayor in Ghana, more than 7,500 miles away, after a high-likelihood event was predicted by the weather service, such that when the wildfire disaster began she was still out of the country??

    And what, Welfare Queen YLB, could a US Senator from Texas have done that the state’s governor and the Texas cities’ mayors could not have done?

    And please show your work, girlfriend. In detail, because little piddly shit like this is apparently all you’ve got to work with.

  38. 38

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 12:08 pm

    @ 36, 37

    Welfare Queen YLB, had Ted Cruz been in session in Washington D.C. during that freeze event, rather than in Cancun, how might things have been different and would you still have reason to criticize him?

    Same question, but pertaining to the presence of the two Democrat US senators from California in Washington, D.C. during the LA wildfire crisis earlier this month. Should Padilla and Schiff have flown home so that they might don fire fighting gear, even though there was no water with which to douse flames?

    Or is it just total bullshit that it’s relevant that Cruz was in Cancun, and being the silly twat that you are it was easy for you to complain about Cruz?

  39. 39

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 12:22 pm

    Black folks get their payoff.

    Trump administration withdraws FDA plan to ban menthol cigarettes

    The FDA sent their final version of the regulation to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget in October 2023, which then awaited a sign off from the Biden administration.
    The White House, however, agreed to hold dozens of meetings with groups opposing the rule, including civil rights advocates, business owners and law enforcement officials, with the government missing deadlines in December 2023 and March 2024 to issue a final rule on the ban.

    Chickenshits that they were, Bi-Done and Boxcheck Momala held off because they knew it would cost them black votes. Then they held off after the election because Democrats don’t really care about the health of black people.

    Now it won’t happen at all.

  40. 40

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 12:25 pm

    Sigh.. stupidity is so painful for teh dumfuck..

    On Feb. 17, 2021, amid a winter storm crisis in Texas, that state’s U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz took a trip to Cancun, Mexico.

    True

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ted-cruz-cancun/

    .. news stories featuring text messages in which Cruz’s wife, Heidi, proposed a multi-day getaway at the Ritz-Carlton in Cancun because their house was “FREEZING” in Houston

    Considering the official statement directly from the senator’s office to Snopes, as well as video and photo evidence of Cruz departing and arriving to the Houston airport from Mexico, we rate this claim “true.”

    And Karen Bass?

    Bass traveled to Ghana to attend the inauguration of the nation’s new president on Jan. 4 [trip planned way in advance], a day after the National Weather Service issued a fire weather watch for Los Angeles. She landed on Jan. 5., and later that day, the weather service issued a red flag warning.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/la-fires-mayor-karen-bass-trip-ghana-timeline/

    i.e. no way Bass could know that the Santa Ana winds (which blow every year) would whip up to 100 mph damaging poorly maintained transmission lines and sparking massive wildfire. Wind and wildfire damage to the Palisades that extensive was unprecedented.

    But the miserable moldering misogynist dumbfuck of widbee will blame it on Bass (for the pitifully silly DEI angle) and the Governor anyway.

    Elmo is not wincing and facepalming at your stupidity dumbfuck. The freek is as stupid and full of shit as you.

  41. 41

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 12:31 pm

    The presence of a US Senator representing Texas in Cancun, fewer than 800 miles away,

    yawnn.. stupid.. TexASS was melting down from the cold and the Khruzz family wanted to escape the weather..

    Khruzz admitted it was a bad look.

    Bass’ trip was anything BUT spur of the moment.

    You’re a miserable misogynist dumbfuck who denies the obvious consequences of the heightening climate crisis because you want to spend your remaining daze swilling top shelf liquor while getting a hand job all for the lowest price possible.

  42. 42

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 12:41 pm

    Was Boxcheck Momala really the best that Democrats had to offer?

    Chuck Schumer
    @SenSchumer

    Is Pete Hegseth really the best that Republicans have to offer?

    12:57 PM · Jan 23, 2025

    Too soon, Chuckles. Way too soon.

  43. 43

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 12:45 pm

    Is Pete Hegseth really the best that Republicans have to offer?

    A vomiting, blackout drunk who rapes, spews shit and mismanages its way to the top job at the Pentagon?

    Obviously the BEST orange pants shitter can manage.

  44. 44

    Batter up spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 1:02 pm

    35

    Guy who’s been reduced to renting out rooms in his house, including charging his own kids rent just to make the mortgage payment, is still running his mouth like he’s actually done something.

    As they say in baseball circles, that’s bush-league.

    “Ya, I voted for her”

    Lmao.

  45. 45

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 1:03 pm

    funny that dumbfuck seems to excuse liberal Cali Senators being available for crisis management in their home state from D.C. D.C. is thousands of miles away from Cali and kankun is only 800 miles away from TexASS..

    Yet Karen Bass is at fault for leaving for a pre-planned trip to Africa, 7500 mile away, a day BEFORE the weather service issued a fire warning alert.. in January..

    Karen Bass apparently can’t address a crisis 7500 miles away in Africa, a crisis she couldn’t have reasonably forseen, because teh dumbfuck apparently believes Ghana is a “shithole country” with no modern comms.

    Well at least dumbfuck no longer blames the empty Palisades reservoir, down for maintenance in fucking JANUARY, on the Governor or any other silly DEI bullshit.

  46. 46

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 1:07 pm

    Guy who’s been reduced to renting out rooms in his house, including charging his own kids rent just to make the mortgage payment

    Me and millions of others. Why does asshat maxiwipe hate America so much while swilling liquor and getting blotto in other countries?

    The ONE kid (other kid has already flown the nest) has to choose from multiple offers from professional schools. AMERICAN professional schools. Will be out of the house by midsummer. And we’ll be empty nesters. Parenting mission accomplished.

    We wish him nothing but the best. Thanks for bringing it up. Stick around and we’ll rub his professional license in your fatuous face.

  47. 47

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 1:16 pm

    @45 correction. a day BEFORE the red flag warning.

    Again the Santa Ana winds blow every year.

  48. 48

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 1:22 pm

    As they say in baseball circles, that’s bush-league.

    How far did you get? Never to the show obviously. What are you? AAA, aka first loser? AA? Single-A?

    Could we all see you wash out in Everett?

  49. 49

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 2:19 pm

    On “teh illegals” front:

    The White House said immigration agents have arrested 538 undocumented immigrants with criminal records and deported “hundreds” more. Those numbers, if accurate, would be relatively modest for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement surge operations…

    Trump and his officials provided few details about those arrests or proof of their criminal records. Trump has long characterized immigrants as criminals, though studies show that native-born Americans commit a higher share of violent felonies.

    Without evidence, he said: “These are murderers. These are people that have been as bad as you get. As bad as anybody you’ve seen. We’re taking them out first.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/01/24/immigration-raids-deportations-trump-ice/

    heh.. Guess who deported more than pants shitter? Obama.. aka “the deporter in chief”.. Biden easily deported more than pants shitter but didn’t meet Obama’s level. And guess who deported more than Obama?

    Bush… baby Bush..

    And who deported more than baby Bush..

    Clinton!

    Don’t take my word for it:

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/13/politics/obama-trump-deportations-illegal-immigration/index.html

  50. 50

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 2:58 pm

    @6 Don’t think so, not as far as I know. Where are you getting your information from? The orifice you wipe with toilet paper?

  51. 51

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 3:02 pm

    @8 The U.S. Capitol was overrun by unauthorized citizens on Jan. 6, 2021. I’ve not seen any reports of non-citizens in that mob.

  52. 52

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 3:06 pm

    @9 is more dumbfuckery from a dumbfuck who never bothers to fact-check anything.

    Dumbfuck sez: “In yet another example of the sweeping effects of the DJT47 mandate, Norah O’Donnell has been cashiered by CBS News.”

    Wikipedia sez: “In July 2024 O’Donnell announced that her tenure at CBS Evening News would end following the 2024 United States presidential election, after which she would become a senior correspondent for CBS News.”

    How come I keep catching you lying, doc?

  53. 53

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 3:10 pm

    @15 So were you. How else to explain years of medical training sitting unused on 5 acres of horse manure in Freeland, Washington?

  54. 54

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 3:12 pm

    @17 I haven’t yet heard of any plans to do away with the MLK federal holiday, but I’m sure that’s on Trump’s “to do” list, along with restoring Confederate statues and military base names. Resegregating schools and lunch counters probably is there somewhere, too.

  55. 55

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 3:17 pm

    @18 “Deportation flights have begun.”

    Not exactly. These flights are “common occurrences.” The only thing that has “begun” is using military instead of civilian aircraft. In all other aspects, it’s a continuation of Biden administration practices.

    https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-c-17s-first-deportation-flights-guatemala/

    And another case of Republican chest-beaters taking credit for a Biden policy.

  56. 56

    Metsker Maps spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 3:19 pm

    Karen Bass is a walking, talking disaster

    I’m going to talk about LA County now.

    Which I’m under the impression is the City of Los Angeles.

    Then I’m going to wonder why Bruce Harrell does’t increase the fire department funding for Sammamish.

  57. 57

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 3:26 pm

    @29 She wasn’t a “CBS weather reporter,” she was an employee of a local TV station; and while it’s unclear exactly why she was fired, her Instagram post not only called the neo-Nazi Trump pal’s gesture a Nazi salute, it also contained an implied threat. My guess is it was the threat that got her sacked.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cbs-weather-reporter-fired-after-elon-musk-nazi-salute-comments/ar-AA1xJPXX?cvid=2fb5296bf6dc4b1eab01919a64200757&ei=11

    Once again the dumbfuck doctor gets sloppy with facts, because he’s a lazy dumbfuck.

  58. 58

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 3:28 pm

    @32 I think we can all safely assume Doctor Dumbfuck is intimately familiar with the pain of being stupid.

  59. 59

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 3:29 pm

    @33 If you were rich, you wouldn’t be paying taxes.

  60. 60

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 3:31 pm

    @37 If you want to argue the mayor of Los Angeles is as worthless in a disaster as the junior senator from Texas, I’m not going to waste my breath on that one.

    Meanwhile, Trump thinks it’s a good idea for states to pay for disaster relief themselves, starting with California.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/24/trump-recommends-ending-fema-ahead-of-california-fire-site-visit.html

    Somehow I don’t think that’ll work out very well for red states, on balance; but fine, do that so I don’t have to pay taxes to bail out Texas, the Gulf states, Florida, and the Carolinas.

  61. 61

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 3:40 pm

    @42 Only an idiot sees an equivalency between Harris and Hegseth. One, a career prosecutor, former vice president, and gifted orator and debater; the other, a Fox TV talking head and alcoholic woman abuser.

    One is more competent than the other, and you have no political commentary competence whatsoever. A rhubarb plant could be a better troll than you.

  62. 62

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 7:15 pm

    Trump wants to end FEMA, make states pay more, and as for federal relief money, “rather than going through FEMA, it will go through us,” he said. It doesn’t take a Ph.D. to figure out this means he’ll personally decide who gets disaster aid and how much, and you can easily see where that goes.

  63. 63

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 7:44 pm

    Hegseth confirmed as secdef by 51-50 vote. The 3 Republicans voting “no” were Murkowski, Collins, and McConnell.

  64. 64

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 7:52 pm

    Hegseth’s nom would’ve failed if James David Bowman hadn’t voted for confirm him. Jaydee is now personally responsible for putting a drunk in charge of our national defense.

  65. 65

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 8:00 pm

    If Trump flies 300 migrants out of the U.S. a day, it will take him only 100 years to deport all the illegals.

  66. 66

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 8:17 pm

    “COME AND GET HIM! OPEN SEASON ON FAUCI!”

    That’s a paraphrase, not exactly what Trump said, but awfully close. The AP headline says,

    Trump ends Fauci’s security detail and says he’d feel no responsibility if harm befell him

    https://apnews.com/article/fauci-trump-security-detail-4b2e317dc9e7768c0571df30750e863a

    This sure sounds like an invitation to assassinate Fauci.

  67. 67

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 8:22 pm

    It’s time for SPLC to designate the Republican Party as a hate group.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/us/idaho-same-sex-marriage-supreme-court.html

  68. 68

    They ain’t who you think they are. spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 8:56 pm

    66

    And while they’re at it, the SPLC can designate itself as a bunch of financial terrorists.

  69. 69

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 10:22 pm

    62)McConnell should have quit as leader sooner if he has a backbone now. I am surprised Murkowski, still a chance repeal of Open Primary/RCV before she is up again. Collin’s, I believe Senate is one of the races the Supreme Judicial Court allowed RCV to be used in.

  70. 70

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 1/24/25 at 11:12 pm

    @68 The Hegseth vote reveals that McConnell’s influence in the GOP is gone. Murkowski, and probably Collins, would have voted against Hegseth without him. McConnell joined them, but brought no other GOP senators along with him. He’s the leader of nothing now.

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